An Overview of the “Participating in Democracy
Project”
and The Democratic Academy Classroom Engagement - Techniques for
developing active and engaged learners
- Transforming your classroom into a participatory democracy
- Collaborating with students on course content and syllabus
- Emphasizing student responsibility for learning and self-governance
Community Engagement - Techniques for implementing service-learning
into courses
- Linking active learning to effective action within the community
- Linking active learning to empathy, social consciousness and
moral agency
- Getting started: locating sites, orienting students, integrating
service into course content
Political Engagement - Techniques for educating students to be
politically, civically and socially active
- Teaching civic skills: communication skills, analytical skills,
leadership and mediation; consensus building; effective community
organization
- Teaching civic virtues: critical self-evaluation and self-examination,
open-mindedness, accountability, willingness to form moral and
civic commitments and to act on them
- Project of meaningful action for political or social change
Discussion of “Reinventing Democracy “ video
and integration it into courses
Assessment - Overview of assessment tools
Support for Test-Teachers: Web-based support, phone consultation,
experienced faculty mentors
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